Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Spottes

Spottes, a mansion in Urr parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, near the left bank of Urr Water, 4 miles NNW of Dalbeattie. Its owner, Alexander Young-Herries, Esq. (b. 1827; suc. 1872), holds 987 acres in the shire, valued at £920 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Urr ScoP       Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty

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